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Bank Runs Spreading Across Europe. The United States is Next

By Martin Weiss – Weiss Research  Monday, May 28, 2012 This is not the first time we’ve warned you about an imminent financial megashock. In our Money and Markets of December 3, 2007, we specifically named Lehman Brothers as the next major firm to collapse on Wall Street. (See “Dangerously Close to a Money Panic.”) In our Money and Markets of March 17, 2008, precisely 182 days before its failure, we again named Lehman, making it abundantly clear that it could be the trigger of a financial meltdown. (See “Closer to a Financial Meltdown.”) And now, starting with last...

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Book Review: Harvard Business Review’s 10 Must-Reads: On Managing Yourself

Authors:  Clayton M. Christensen, Peter F. Drucker, William Oncken Jr., Donald L. Wass, Diane L. Coutu, Tony Schwartz, Catherine McCarthy, Edward M. Hallowell, Stewart D. Friedman, Sumantra Ghoshal, Heike Bruch, Robert E. Quinn, Robert S. Kaplan, Daniel Golean, Richard Boyatzis and Annnie McKee. Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press – 198 pages Book Review by:  Sonu Chandiram This book is part of a series of books on important as aspects of management published by the Harvard Business Review Press. You probably have read elsewhere that managing yourself is key to managing others, which in turn is critical to building a...

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Book Review: After Artest – The NBA and the Assault on Blackness

Author:  David J. Leonard Publisher:  SUNY Press – 262 pages Book Review by:  Paiso Jamakar On November 19, 2004, an altercation occurred between players and fans during a basketball game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons (two teams in the National Basketball Association) in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The altercation was initially between Ron Artest, playing for the Pacers, and Ben Wallace, center for the Pistons. It turned into a major brawl involving not only the two players, but also the Pacers’ Jermaine O’Neal, Stephen Jackson, several other players and Pistons fans including John Green and A.J. Shackleford....

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Book Review: Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology – Third Edition, with CD-ROM

Book Review: Fundamentals of Anatomy & Physiology – Third Edition, with CD-ROM Author:  Donald C. Rizzo, PhD. Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning – 529 pages Book Review by:  Nano Khilnani This book by Donald C. Rizzo PhD is very well organized with 19 self-contained chapters. The first five chapters are on: the human body in general, body chemistry, cell structure, cellular metabolism, and tissues. The next 14 chapters each focus on a particular system of the body. Recalling my own course in high school of human anatomy and physiology, there were two body systems not included in the textbook we...

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Book Review: The Education of Millionaires: It’s Not What You Think and It’s Not Too Late

Author: Michael Ellsberg Publisher: Penguin Portfolio – 258 pages Book Review by:  Sonu Chandiram This book by Michael Ellsberg, who himself confesses that he is not a millionaire (at least not yet) is based on interviews of numerous millionaires who don’t have college degrees. In the process of having discussions with them, Ellsberg learned that most if not all of them attribute their success to learning from doing, rather than from schooling. We’ve often heard that the “school of hard knocks” is the best teacher. To those millionaires, one of the most important lessons they’ve learned, Ellsberg writes, is...

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